New iMac; cannot create hanja via the Korean IME (works fine on Windows, however). How to fix

Alloftheusernamesaretaken wrote:

for the past several years I have not been able to create hanja using the 2-set Korean IME via Word on the iMac - either on an older model or the new one I purchased in December 2020.

Please try the following on your system, which does produce hanja for me using Word 16.45 on MacOS 10.15.7:

+With Korean 2-set IM type gks

+While holding down shift and option keys together, press return

That should be easy to fix. Just go to system preferences/keyboard/input sources, click on your 2-set keyboard, and over at the right there’s a drop down menu where you can choose the output format to be only Hanja with no parentheses.

PSS In Word for Mac, to get Hanja it seems I need to type Option Shift Return (hold down option shift at the same time and then press return).

Which Korean IM and which apps? Are you in Big Sur (your profile says a MacOS from many years ago)?

What happens when you do Option Return after typing a syllable in hangul? This is what I get after typing "han"

Alloftheusernamesaretaken wrote:

I type in gks, and up comes han [in hangul]; I then hit option/enter, and han [in hangul] comes up again.

Does your screen look like mine, except you have only one item in the Candidate Window, and that item is hangul instead of hanja?

Does this happen in TextEdit and Pages? Also with HNC Romaja input?

I have not seen this problem with other users, so there is presumably something messed up on your machine. Do you have any antivirus stuff installed?

Here is some info on posting a screen shot, in case that has proven difficult:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6591

TextEdit and Pages are two Apple apps which people often use to create text documents, and those are what I have used for testing. You find them in the Applications folder. What app or apps are you using currently where you have this problem? I want to try and exactly duplicate what you are doing.

HNC Romaja is another IM for Korean, where you type han instead of gks. It is found in system prefs > keyboard > input sources when you click on the + button to add a new keyboard.

When you are typing Korean in Windows, you are not using any of Apple's software, so you would not have the same problem.

PS I have just tried MS Word for Mac, and Korean input appears to be broken as you describe.

Please try Pages or TextEdit and let me know if the Korean IM works in those apps for you.

Alloftheusernamesaretaken wrote:

Big Sur 11.2, using 2-set input method. [I explain that I have tried option/return, and give an example of exactly what happens,, but I am getting an error message telling me that I have included content in my post that is not permitted... excuse me?]

Thanks for the info! You have to post a screen shot like I did. (For some crazy reason, despite complaints, the Apple forums do not yet accept certain non-Latin scripts, including Korean and a number from India and SE Asia).

PS here is what I get on Big Sur 11.1, Pages, 2-set Korean IM, typing gks and then doing option return (have not yet had time to upgrade to 11.2):